PG&E’s numbers are confusing and contradictory from year to year. There are obvious errors, such as “0” under total enrolled customers for 2010. Customers enrolled in two programs are double counted in 2012, as PG&E notes.

The net result is that during these four years, there has been very minimal conservation savings by consumers, less than what could have been achieved without the expense and considerable problems of the Smart Meter program.

The web program, greatly hyped by PG&E and other utilities, and their premiere PR tool, appears to be a failure, especially for 2010 and 2013, as far as energy conservation.

Demand reduction is not happening at all.

This data is compared below with PG&E’s own suggestions from their literature.

These energy figures do not take into account the considerable energy use by Smart Meters, infrastructure, and related data storage facilities.

There are probably other “gems” hidden in these reports.

PG&E’s program has cost the public billions of dollars, with more costs accumulating. Keep that in mind as you look at these figures which contrast sharply with everything PG&E and the energy companies have said.

PG&E 2011 Program Year SmartMeter™ Program Enabled Demand Response and Energy Conservation Annual Report, 4-30-12, p. 21 * 29,662 customers were dually enrolled in CWP and EA; there were 243,432 unique service accounts

The financial benefits for 2011 were $94,000 divided by 199,833 enrolled customers. Each customer saved 47 cents for the entire year. The energy savings per customer was .0096 MWh or 9.6 kWh for the entire year.

This is in stark contrast with energy savings promoted by PG&E in a customer booklet.

Utilizing power strips, unplugging electronics and small appliances not in use

[45’ Because we did not account for dual enrollment for CWP and EA, the two energy savings numbers corresponding to these programs when added together will be likely to double count the impacts from these programs.

The financial benefits for 2013 were $917,700 divided by 566,297 enrolled customers. Each customer saved $1.62 for the entire year. The energy savings per customer was .0316 MWh or 31.6 kWh for the entire year.

Even if you exclude the non-saving CWP-enrolled customers, you still get only $14.50 for the entire year, with an energy savings of .283 MWh or 283 kWh

2013 Summary Per Acct. Per Year

Singly enrolled CWP -0- -0- -0-

Singly enrolled EA .267 MWh 267 kWh $13.70

Dually enrolled EA, CWP .294 MWh 294 kWh $15.06

HAN/BAN .279 MWh 279 kWh $16.10

TotalFor 566,297 customers:

CWP, EA, dual, HAN/BAN .031 MWh 31 kWh $1.62

Adjusted TotalFor 63278 customers:

EA, dual, HAN/BAN .282 MWh 282 kWh $14.50

This is less than the savings PG&E says can be obtained by very inexpensive means.

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